interop - Using D programming language in a .NET context

Question

I'm curious: has anyone used D together with .NET languages? Is that even possible? What kind of stuff is easier/makes sense to do in D that's hard to do in, say, C++/CLI?

Answer 1

Using D together with .NET is very possible. The reason:

• .NET is able to import unmanaged C libraries (.dll's which export C functions) using the dllImport attribute.
• D is able to export C functions. using the export and extern (C) attributes

So the considering the technicalities, it's completely possible.

With regards to what D makes easier than C++, the answer is fairly easy: "Everything". In a sense, D is really just a copy of C++ with just about everything done simpler. Sure that's only a half story, but reasonably true.